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San Diego Comic-Con: Thursday

Convention center.

Crowd.

Color.

Zombie.

Panel: Wonder Women—Female Power Icons in Pop Culture.

"They say there aren't enough good roles for women. That's because Eliza Dushku is playing them all." (On Dollhouse.)

Sigourney Weaver: "Ripley could take Clint Eastwood in a fight."

Will Juliet return to LOST this season? Says Elizabeth Mitchell: "That depends on whether or not Jack's plan worked."

Missed the end of the panel because the baby, who'd been an angel up to that point, had had enough. Had s

"A Little Egg Lay on a Leaf"

How many times have you read The Very Hungry Caterpillar aloud?

It's got to be in the hundreds for me. Seems like every single one of my kids has had a time when that book was the favorite above all others.

But in all these years, I've never actually seen a real caterpillar egg—until now.

Can you see it? The little white dot on the underside of the leaf, quite near the stem. I watched the butterfly lay this egg and immediately afterward I ran inside for the camera, so this photo was taken no more t

June Reading Notes

I've held this in drafts for far too long. Posting it now, incomplete (all my June books are included, but my notes are not), before Comic-Con begins and swallows up July as well.

YA fiction:

The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams. (Mentioned in this post.)

Sweethearts by Sara Zarr.

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart.

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. The sequel to The Hunger Games. I'll post about this book in more depth after its pub date in September—perhaps we can ha

Blue Eye Opens

Sunday.

Monday.

Tuesday.

Twitterlog 2009-07-20

Has been quite a pleasant day, but hard to surpass Scott's GOB Bluth magic performance as he left for work this a.m. Cue up Final Countdown! #Just discovered the new(ish?) Tasks feature in gmail. LOVE. #Beanie said, and she sincerely meant it as the ultimate compliment: "Mom, this pork is so good you could serve it at DENNY'S." #Comic-con schedule mentions LOST table read. SO EXCITED. Oh wait, I read too fast. It's a table read of the lost episode of The Middleman. #Whyyy did that step class see

Someday

…I might post something other than photos from our butterfly garden,

…but I wouldn't hold your breath.

On the Verge

Success

Milkweed and Friends

Comic-Con Planning

Hannah makes a good point. San Diego Comic-Con is just a week away, and I've been poring over the schedule. The LOST panel, oh I'm there. And there's a Dollhouse thing I plan to attend, baby permitting. The "Female Power Icons in Pop Culture" panel with Sigourney Weaver and Elizabeth Mitchell (that's Juliet to you LOST fans) sounds interesting, but it's early on, before my parents arrive to take over the child-wrangling.

Here are the schedules. Anything here strike your fancy, O Bonny Glen friend